skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did get the feeling the questions were chosen, perhaps unintentionally, to create a natural bias towards those who have a formal CS education.

Contrived example: Someone who came up with a quicksort algorithm independently, and is completely aware of its operating conditions, but chose to call it mysort instead, would be unable to answer the question in the last test despite having all the theoretical knowledge needed.

There is, of course, still something to be said about being able to use terminology that is shared with others, but that changes the nature of the test in ways I'm not sure the author intended.
There is also a thread about the related blog post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4629952
Not judging? "... most likely you're either missing something you really should know, or you're lucky enough to be working within a narrow area where your deficit doesn't matter."

Talk about reading just part of the sentence.
You'll probably earn more money.
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A good point, considering a large portion of practicing programmers are self-taught.
Sure, but at the same time the article said there are 11 more of the same ones ready to go up.

It is a loss, but looks like the cost of being on the first wave of a new space startup.
This is the main reason why I went the other way round when developing Tehula[1]. The basic idea is that knowing the location of someone should be the exception and not the norm, and that the burden should be put on the one requesting the location and not the locatee (who should have the right to ignore a request too).

[1]:http://tehula.com
The book mentioned in the article, "Definitive Book of Body Language" is an excellent resource. However, it is more of an encyclopedia - comprehensive, but lacking in context. I began this journey some years ago and found Navarro's "What Every Body is Saying" a more helpful starting place. Gives a framework to help understand body language, something that may prove helpful if you are starting from square zero.
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+1 to being a (minor) collector.

Have a few with vague ideas behind them that might never come to fruition.
Also worth noting that this is language dependent. What you say is true in C (which is admittedly what the question was about), but not true in for example Fortran.

edit: Ignore. I'm wrong, see below
She isn't dead.
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I'd be shocked if they were not the same drives you buy from a supplier.
Relying on JS function calls and variable declarations is actually more efficient in this case since the underlying JS JIT can perform a lot of optimizations (SSA / Register Allocation). We do stack allocation for structs and local variables for which you need to take the addresses of.

The "let" keyword is left in there because we wanted to stay compatible with JS. So any JS program is also an LLJS program. This way it would be easy to integrate into an existing code base. As for the "let" vs. "var" debate, we chose "let" because of its block scoping semantics and because we didn't want to let variable declarations alias each other with different types.
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"not judging whether someone is a valid software developer or not" :) I didn't write that he wasn't judging.
It is a well known practice. In this case, you can easily load the same configuration and replay the same queries on the Perl and Go servers, then compare. This means that you have only a single component to test. Supposing the author had selected a different configuration format, he would have had to also check that the configuration was correctly created and loaded. It also allowing the author to put a single server in production to load test once the preliminary tests give good results.
He probably meant to say "readable"
What kind of apps would this help with?

JS is never going to take over on the server for me until it can compete with Python's statistics support, I didn't see much in these slides that suggests it could.
The prices on external drives lagged the prices on internal. The externals are generally sold with reduced warranty -- 1 year, or sometimes as low as 90 days -- and my suspicion has always been that many of them failed an internal longevity test and were binned.
Yeah, that part really stinks. I've had that thought, too. I suppose in some sense this is what subreddits are, but no one cares about being your friend on Reddit.
Miek Gieben's [1] DNS library [2] is truly excellent. I use it at Port 6379 for an authoritative DNS server,
looking up Redis instances [3]. I too have found Go surprisingly productive and enjoyable to code, and our servers seem very stable so far.

[1] http://www.miek.nl/

[2] https://github.com/miekg/dns

[3] https://port6379.com/blog/2012/09/03/using-dns-to-find-insta...
...and it's been repaired.
Spaceflightnow.com has some more details:

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/004/121008orbcomm/
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Did you miss the part where they had a month's supply and the option of just paying more on the OEM market? This is just how they made best use of the market by going to nontraditional channels, not their only option.
Also note that during college I was a 6'2, 210lb guy who experienced these effects from adderall with as low as a 10mg dosage. Some kids are prescribed 2-3 times that amount. Luckily for me, I decided it wasn't worth the side effects and I'd rather deal with any attention problems on my own. I feel sorry for the kids who never had the choice.
Good to hear she's "out of danger" but things like this really need to end. Shooting a 14 year old isn't going to make people respect you, but I guess they just want people to like them out of fear.. Awfully sad news! Respect to the girl for coming up for herself and other women in the same situation.
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No.

If:
V(a)=0.75c (relative to observer at (c))
and
V(b)=0.75c (relative to observer at (c))

and (a) and (b) appear to be on parallel and oppositely signed vectors from (c)'s vantage point, the observed velocity of (b) @ (a), or (a) @ (b) will not equal 1.5c.
Sure it is. You are watching capitalism in action. The company that could effectively utilize shucked hard drives did so. Larger companies that don't have the management oversight to follow this type of detail just let them be fore sale at what they already were.
The girl's example reminds me a bit of "blowing the dust out of the connector" by Raymond Chen:

Here's the trick: Don't ask "Are you sure it's plugged in correctly?"

If you do this, they will get all insulted and say indignantly, "Of course it is! Do I look like an idiot?" without actually checking.

Instead, say "Okay, sometimes the connection gets a little dusty and the connection gets weak. Could you unplug the connector, blow into it to get the dust out, then plug it back in?"

They will then crawl under the desk, find that they forgot to plug it in (or plugged it into the wrong port), blow out the dust, plug it in, and reply, "Um, yeah, that fixed it, thanks."

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/03/83244...
Why?

They have built a backup architecture designed to use low reliability commodity hard drives.

This post shows the lengths they go to just to keep growing. Imagine what they'll do to keep the system running!
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# dig +short @8.8.8.8 google.ie (Google DNS #1)

74.125.132.94

# dig +short @8.8.4.4 google.ie (Google DNS #2)

74.125.132.94

# dig +short @208.67.222.222 google.ie (Open DNS #1)

119.235.27.219

# dig +short @208.67.220.220 google.ie (Open DNS #2)

119.235.27.219

# dig +short @ns1.farahatz.net google.ie

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

# dig +short @ns2.farahatz.net google.ie

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

# whois 74.125.132.94

...

NetName: GOOGLE

...

# whois 119.235.27.219

...

netname: LINTASLINK-ID

...
It also makes it much easier to roll back to the previous implementation. If he had created a new configuration file format, he'd have to keep the old and new config files in sync until the new implementation had proven out. Speaking from similar experience, that's no fun.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider how patent rules apply to self-replicating technologies.

Well, let's hope that if we ever get to have a Star Trek-like replicator, we won't have to "pirate" food and whatnot by using the replicator.
I was a bit disappointed in the direct injection portion of the article. I'm not sure why the author chose high-performance vehicles as the poster child for direct injection, because they definitely weren't the first to use it, and definitely not the ones to use it in large numbers.

Some of the earliest uses of direct injection in production cars were Japanese makes in rather pedestrian sedans. VW went all out with direct injection around 2000 in their 2.0T engine, which is available in every car (except the Toureg) they sell in the US, ranging from the Golf, to the Tiguan, to the CC. I would not be surprised if VW sold the greatest number of direct injection engines in the world.

By contrast, Ferrari just started using direct injection in 2009. BMW just started using it in 2006. Despite the image we're sold by performance brands, they often lag behind in technology, simply because they don't have the budgets to do the R&D. They leave that to the big guys, then license the technology once it's been deployed in large numbers.
This isn't about brand, trade, or corporate name. It is about the nature of the service being performed and the fact that very few people are going to have the ability to actually service these vehicles properly.
Haha. For those not in on the joke, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
You have to take the subjective statements out of the equation. AFAIK the mission had two objectives:

1. Loft Dragon into an orbit from which it can chase and catch the ISS.

2. Loft the Orbcomm test/demo payload into some orbit specified by the customer.

During the launch they lost an engine. They still achieved objective 1. They did not achieve objective 2. The most interesting thing to know will be why they didn't achieve objective 2.
Basically everything in the rocket launch is automated, there was a primary and secondary mission on board the rocket. When a problem happened with one of the engines it was shut down and still was able to complete the primary mission which was the dragon capsule but it had to consume extra fuel in order to do so and that left the secondary mission without enough fuel to deliver the orbcomm satellite within the required safety margins of the ISS. So in that aspect the rocket did exactly what it was supposed to do, it saw a problem and dealt with it completing its primary mission at a sacrifice of its secondary mission.

Edit: It could also be the case that it did have the required fuel but part of the agreement with NASA was that if any anomaly should happen that the secondary mission is aborted or that it had a specific time window where it was allowed to start its engines back up to deliver the second payload and it missed that window because it took longer to get to orbit.
This was a one-off event that I'm sure the hard drive manufacturers themselves will be taking steps to prevent reoccurring.

What else can Backblaze do? Stockpile drives? The hard drive industry moves fast, with major product releases every 6-12 months and constant price reductions; this would almost certainly increase the cost to the end user.

No business can adequately prepare for a supply shock like this. Imagine airlines facing a 300% increase in the price of fuel. Almost every single one would go out of business.

In this case, would you be berating the ingenious airline that goes out of its way to track down fuel at a cheaper price, finding a low-cost fuel that they can easily refine themselves to aviation fuel, so as to honour their commitments to their customers and avoiding raising their prices?
Based on the wording of the article, it seems that the satellite is in the wrong orbit not because of the fault with the first stage but because the second stage wasn't allowed to make a correction burn due to NASA rules.
You read it wrong.

Try this: the new software reads the old config file format, so we can stagger the roll-out (install new code on some servers while keeping the old code on other servers), and expect things to keep humming along with no downtime and a simple fallback procedure if we see any problems. The new code should perform better than the old code, that's why we wrote it.
I disagree, it probably wouldn't, unless it was something very simple.
60 years is nothing. In the next 6000 years most things u can barely dream off will be ancient history.

If in last 60 years we didn't discovered something it doesn't mean in the next 600 we won't discovery something 10 times as good as it.

If you are not the author you are as narrow minded as him.
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no evidence - no science...

asperger can no longer be "a thing" soon, as it seems it will be removed from the next DSM... so these people either have nothing or are mild autistic or something.

it also appears that 20% of ppl 'diagnosed' with this 'grow out of it'

"it is nearly impossible to diagnose accurately, indeed statistics show that about 20% of those given the diagnosis later "grow out of it" and show no symptoms as adults, which admits the possibility that they were misdiagnosed in the first place. Also there have been many reports of opportunistic diagnosis of this syndrome in people who were simply different than their peers."

http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/myth.html
Wow, what a hero. It takes extreme amounts of bravery to stick to your beliefs in an area like that. It's great to hear she is alive.
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Correlation doesn't imply cause and effect.
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Unless you are Blizzard, you can't have a SaaS with a catastrophic launch and still have people think of you as a bunch of swell guys and gals at the end of the day.
The Falcon 9 upper stage didn't run out of propellant! It's that their ISS safety window didn't permit refiring. Orbcomm said it in their own report:

"The OG2 prototype satellite, flying as a
secondary payload on this mission, was separated from the Falcon 9 launch vehicle at
approximately 9:00 pm EST. However, due to an anomaly on one of the Falcon 9’s first stage
engines, the rocket did not comply with a pre-planned International Space Station (ISS) safety gate
to allow it to execute the second burn. For this reason, the OG2 prototype satellite was deployed
into an orbit that was lower than intended. ORBCOMM and Sierra Nevada Corporation engineers
have been in contact with the satellite and are working to determine if and the extent to which the
orbit can be raised to an operational orbit using the satellite’s on-board propulsion system"

http://www.orbcomm.com/Collateral/Documents/English-US/ORBCO...
I've just got this in my email. It really is sad.
and it also stops copy/paste link via a right click (at least, that didnt work last time i tried)
If the likes of Google (tech-savvy, security-savvy, loads of cash) can't stay safe, the problem is huge.
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I'm in love with Go. The more I use it the more i fall in love with it.
Taxonomy in biology isn't an exact science, either. For instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem
benchmark: time for the loop with signed integers:
lljs = 116 ms, sbcl = 0.026, so lljs is still five times slower than sbcl in my computer (64 bits, ubuntu).
Compiled in: 32 ms
-----------------------------------------------------
Timer: 116 ms: Empty For loop with signed integers.
Timer: 604 ms: Empty For loop with unsigned integers.
Timer: 115 ms: Empty For loop with untyped integers.
-----------------------------------------------------
Executed in : 835 ms.

(time (loop for i fixnum below 50000000 do (progn nil)))

Evaluation took:
0.026 seconds of real time
0.028001 seconds of total run time (0.024001 user, 0.004000 system)
107.69% CPU
53,460,529 processor cycles
0 bytes consed

NIL
You should not. Don't believe the hype.
What you shóuld do however is experiment
Experiment with as many languages as you can, It will make you a better programmer.
Makes me wonder why they omitted that sentence from the quote. It certainly made the hacker news linker misunderstand it!
One point I would like to make: being an introvert doesn't mean you can't interact in a group situation (or have low social intelligence), it's just not your preferred situation.

I'd rather be reading a book than socialising with colleagues after work, but I do it and am far from a wallflower.

I also had an instructor on a course (on brainstorming) and he was very energetic, dynamic and dominated the room (in a good way). I chatted to him after the course and got on the subject of Myers-Briggs, and he said he was actually an introvert. He had just learnt (through training as an actor amongst other things) to be an extrovert when the situation required it.
I'm not doubting what you say, but could you elaborate on why Fortran is different?

I could understand a difference for two-dimensional (or more) arrays, where different languages lay-out the array contents in memory differently. Does Fortran lay-out the contents of one dimensional arrays in an unusual way?
Most of the drives in external devices are "green" drives which has higher seek time and/or lower RPM. The reason why these drives' price have not increased as much/as fast is because the demand is lower than the "regular" internal drives.

I did the same thing when the "crisis" happened, I bought a load of external drive and removed the hard disk from them.
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> Imagine airlines facing a 300% increase in the price of fuel. Almost every single one would go out of business.

No. They use hedges to control their cost (this is the original point of hedging...). If a company is reliant on a constant supply of hard-drives and doesn't want to be exposed to the risk of extreme price jumps it should probably do the same.
There are two different concepts of tachyons: Quantum fields with imaginary mass and faster-than-light particles.

Tachyonic fields still (anti)commute at space-like separation, which preserves causality. Such fields are maximally unstable and do not permit a particle picture. They are used to describe spontaneous symmetry breaking.

Tachyonic particles are a concept from special relativity. While one can also attribute an imaginary mass to such particles, this basically encodes a sign convention. These theoretical particles exhibit some perculiar properties (zero-energy particles which travel at infinite velocity and finite momentum, different observers will disagree on emitter and absorber - in fact, during a tachyonic interaction, both endpoints may claim to be emitter or absorber in their respective rest frames depending on their relative motion, ...). According to Recami[1], no causal paradoxa occur.

[1] http://dinamico2.unibg.it/recami/erasmo%20docs/SomeRecentSCI...
Just going to the homepage and features page I still don't quite understand what the service is about. I would like to see the blue banner area on the homepage to include a concise description of what the service is.

The Features page is text heavy and the screenshots are too isolated. I felt overwhelmed and didnt try to ready it. For me, a better features page would be to have a full page screenshot with "hand-drawn" arrows with 1-2 line descriptions of the feature.

Right now my take away is this is like a Disquos<sp?> for FAQs - but I still dont quite understand why I would pay for that. (Im sure im missing something, just havent taken the time to poke around/read through the site)
Can any javascript people explain this piece of code

const $M = require('memory');

That the compiler outputs as JS? Is the 'require('memory')' something that is native to the JS runtime?
So, the Google DNS servers are returning the correct values? Is it definitely Google's server which has been hacked?
The Currie family has something similar I think with 5 different member receiving the honor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Family_laureates
This reminds me of Google Bolivia giving a certificate error because it points to Google.com:

https://www.google.bo/
Agree. The default expectation today in society is "I contacted that person, he/she should respond" instead of "I contacted that person, he/she will respond if needed" (of course, there are exceptions like emergency calls, family etc). Why would I want to know who is in a meeting with who, and if they are available or not? Why would I want others to know what I am upto? This totally escapes me
Hear, hear. Obsession with trivia and a supercilious tone are sure signals of a B-player in my experience. "Name and describe the four states in MESI cache coherence"? Sorry, memorising an algorithm for determining if a graph is bipartite pushed that knowledge clean out of my head...no doubt I'm very stupid.
The fact that the fake nameservers were visible on iedr.ie means that it's likely the .ie TLD, or someone with the keys to google.ie (e.g. eMarkmonitor Inc) were the real cause..
O and don't forget "Go Error Handling Sucks".
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> It’s important that the fake OS and browser UI match the user’s system.

Actually, it isn't, at least for some users. More than one member of my family has fallen for the "your computer has a virus" scams, which use Windows chrome, on Ubuntu machines.
Did the server explode? I am imagining smoldering tetris blocks all over the floor.
the thing most people don't realize about capital gains is that the same profit was also subject to a 35% corporate income tax rate. Recently the top capital gains rate on dividends went from 15% to 44.6% (nearly a 300% increase!). That means that of every hundred dollars a company makes in profit, the government can take 35 + 44.6 = $79.60. Am I the only one that this that this is crazy?
Ask HN:  RSI (repetitive strain injury) evaluation & treatment in (greater) NYC?
Not quite there yet, hopefully, but I am occasionally feeling some numbness and tingling in certain spots, and would really like to make sure my condition doesn't "tip" into full-blown carpal tunnel, or perhaps something worse. So I would appreciate first-hand recommendations as to (1) a top-notch physician to perform a decisive evaluation (ifsuch is possible), and (2) good places for physical therapy, should this be prescribed.

This will be self-pay, BTW. But I will be very happy to empty my wallet and/or take a long train ride to see a truly high-caliber specialist for the purpose of (1).

Also, I'd like to know if anyone has had any experience, positive or negative, with the nice-seeming folks at Midtown East:

http://midtowneastpt.com/

BTW please upvote this post -- I could really use some good recs for this, and it's definitely not easy to pull this kind of info up using search engines (for obvious reasons).

Thanks!
In what real-world scenario would airlines respond to a short-term rise in the cost of fuel by finding a new low-cost fuel and refining it themselves to fuel engines designed and tested with existing fuels?